Memories and archival material are refracted to create a rich pilgrimage through personal reminiscence and fragments of the past.

The films in this programme collapse the space between past and present through the unravelling of stories and fragments encased within the frames of found film stock, betwixt the pages of archival documents and amid personal accounts. The interlacing of reclaimed film and imagined narratives constructs a mesmeric collage, and a cluster of found 8mm film and a museum of maritime artefacts illuminate remnants of presence and remembrance bound within the objects we treasure.

******* 9月にオンデマンドで観られるそうです ♪

＊THE MUSE will be released on Wearecolony’s new VoD platform from September.

◆ベン、Edward Dunstan という写真家＆映画作家らしい。

Presented by W Magazine, Vionnet, BBC Films, Wearecolony and Pulse Films, the film centres around Edward Dunstan (Ben Whishaw), a photographer and filmmaker obsessed by his muse (Kristen McMenamy).

Blinded by his all-consuming passion and perfectionism, she waited in vain for him to see her as she was, not the parts he had her play.

And so, like the mermaid in his latest film who grew legs and walked away, so too does she. All that he has left are his photographs and film of her that he has running on a loop.

Only now does he understand what she endured. There is nothing left for him but to be both artist and muse.

Following its premiere in Edinburgh, THE MUSE will be released on Wearecolony’s new VoD platform from September. （Sign in）

"It was the last night that she would breathe the same air as he, or
look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven.
A dreamless, eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had
not been able to win one".

”Lilting" も、この”The Muse" も実は同じプロデューサーだったのね！

"Microwave creative producer Mia Bays and Business and finance producer Mike Kelly are leaving the Film London and BBC production scheme to pursue other opportunities.

The duo worked on eight films backed by the initiative, including Eran Creevy’s Shifty, Ben Drew’s iLL Manors and most recently Hong Khaou’s Sundance drama Lilting.

The Microwave initiative, which backs projects budgeted up to £120,000 ($200,000) is currently on hiatus with no projects in development but ScreenDaily understands that an announcement about the future of the scheme is in the pipeline.

Bays most recently independently produced upcoming music doc Backstreet Boys – The Movie for Pulse Films and co-wrote and produced upcoming short The Muse, directed by Tim Walker, starring Ben Whishaw."

Playhouse presents Foxtrot
"Former stripper Badger (played by Billie Piper) and her accomplice
Fox (Alice Sanders) holed up in a hotel with a man whom they had just kidnapped (Ben Whishaw). A phone call from their cold, calculating
boss Mrs. Dalloway (Lindsay Duncan) shows that they kidnapped the
wrong person - their real purpose was his bliznets. U person with
whom they are now stuck until dawn, there are some learning
difficulties and struggles in dealing with them, but while Badger wants to ditch it and flushed, conscience ・・・・・

"A Hologram For The King", the Tom Tykwer- written and -directed adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel that stars Tom Hanks.

This is the comedic drama we broke about in June, when the project surfaced with a splash. Shooting began today in Morocco on the movie, which is a reteam of Tykwer and Hanks who did Cloud Atlas together. Hanks plays a struggling businessman who heads for a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great.

The book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012. The production will also shoot in Germany and the plan is to wrap in June. Uwe Schott and Stefan Arndt of X Filme Creative Pool are producing with Arcadiy Golubovich and Timothy D. O’Hair of Primeridian, and Hanks and Gary Goetzman of Playtone in association with Silver Reel Entertainment and Fábrica de Cine. Eggers, Playtone’s Steven Shareshian, Silver Reel’s Claudia Bluemhuber of Silver Reel, Gaston Pavlovich of Fabrica de Cine, and Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel of Lotus International will executive produce. CAA is repping domestic rights and Lotus is selling international.

◆THR has debuted the first image from "A Hologram For The King," based on the book by Dave Eggers. Hanks is the biggest name in the cast that features Sarita Choudhury, Omar Elba, Tracey Fairaway, David Menkin and Tom Skerritt, with the dramedy following a desperate American salesman who heads to Saudi Arabia to land a lucrative IT contract. Presumably cultures will clash, and this seemingly fish-out-of-water tale looks perfect for Hanks' sensibility so we're curious to see how it turns out.